neowin_hipster Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 I'm using Shaw cable in the Vancouver area and I'm getting 800 KB/s this afternoon!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.KICK Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 thats nice........:roll: :paranoid: :right: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krome Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 Are you sure it's 800KBps and not 800Kbps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted February 14, 2002 Share Posted February 14, 2002 Thats pretty impressive man. Nice ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xcalibur Posted February 15, 2002 Share Posted February 15, 2002 Originally posted by Krome Are you sure it's 800KBps and not 800Kbps? yep.. i'm sure about his claims.. shaw has excellent speed.. its rated at 8000/1000 Kbps.. so 800KB/s is correct.. shaw is world's fastest residential isp. i love their service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted February 15, 2002 Author Share Posted February 15, 2002 Most of time I get 400 from MS and other large server and 200 from everywhere else. occasionaly 80 from slower servers. This afternoon I was over 800 KB !!! Its about $40 CDN a month. Which is a lot less in USD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJCrowley Esq Posted February 15, 2002 Share Posted February 15, 2002 Wow, when I lived in Vancouver about a year ago, shaw (also rogers before it was shaw) was absolutely terrible. It went down on a near daily basis, I never saw more than 40K/s on my upstream, and the downstream, although occasionally moving in burts up to 450K/s usually was happy to hover well below 100. Mind you, the Telus DSL in the area was the worst "broadband" internet connection I've seen in my life. When I phoned up to ask why it wasn't possible to achieve the advertised, and admittedly low, 1.5MBit, the customer service rep basically told me that 1.5MBit is a number selected at random that you're guaranteed never to reach, they may as well call it a 100MBit connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted February 15, 2002 Veteran Share Posted February 15, 2002 yeah.. they took the speed crown from optimum online now only that more people are on Opt Online now. But my max was 1.2MBytes/s from an AOL FTP downloading the 25MB AOL setup file back in the days... i checked DSL reports and yeah.. they are the fastest now but you still can't touch my max speed. My connection used to be 10Mbps/1.5Mbps. But now my normal downloads are max at 500KBytes/s from IRC OC48 bots :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xcalibur Posted February 15, 2002 Share Posted February 15, 2002 Originally posted by Quazzi I finally got cable today! :D Hurray! I was wondeing how fast this is? What could I do to optimise my speed? Thanx please upload somewhere else. i cant see that without logging in to msn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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